MILK | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of milk in English milknoun [ U ] uk /mɪlk/ us /mɪlk/ Add to word list Add to word list A1 the white liquid produced by cows, goats, and sheep and used by humans as a drink or for making butter, cheese, etc.: a glass/carton of milk cow's/goat's milk skimmed/pasteurized milk a milk bottle   Jose A. Bernat Bacete/Moment/GettyImages the white liquid produced by women and other female mammals as food for their young: Breast/Mother's milk is the best nourishment for a baby. the liquid made from some plants and trees or their nuts, etc.: coconut milk plant-based alternatives to dairy such as almond or hazelnut milk the liquid produced by some plants and trees: The milk of the rubber tree is known as latex. It usually takes six to seven years from the time a rubber tree is planted to when it can produce milk on a commercial basis.

• Do you take milk in your tea?
• Don't use up all the milk, we need some for breakfast.
• Add two cupfuls of milk to the mixture.
• Don't forget to put the milk back in the fridge.
• Antibodies from the mother's milk line the baby's intestines and prevent infection.

Dairy products & eggs

• albumen
• beurre noisette
• brown butter
• butter
• butterfat
• dairy milk
• Devonshire cream
• double cream
• dried milk
• egg white
• light cream
• milk fat
• milk powder
• mylk
• oat milk
• soya milk
• sunny side up idiom
• UHT
• ultra-pasteurized
• unhomogenized

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Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production Food - general words Parts of plants

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the milk of human kindness milkverb uk /mɪlk/ us /mɪlk/

milk verb (GET MILK)

[ I or T ] to get milk from an animal: Milking a cow by hand is a skilled process. Some goats seem to milk (= produce milk) better than others. Animal farming - general words

• animal husbandry
• aquaculture
• aquaponics
• bedding
• beekeeping
• drove
• hand-rear
• hand-reared
• heeler
• herd
• honeycomb
• paddock
• semi-domesticated
• semi-domestication
• shear
• shearing
• sheep shearing
• sheepdog
• slaughter
• slaughterhouse

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milk verb (GET MONEY/INFORMATION)

[ T ] disapproving to get as much money or information out of someone or something as possible, often in an unfair or dishonest way: [ + obj + adj ] The newspapers milked the story dry. The directors milked the company of several million dollars. Removing and extracting

• ablate
• abstract
• abstraction
• bowdlerization
• bowdlerized
• excerpt
• filter something out
• filterable
• filtration
• fish something out phrasal verb
• flick something from something
• peel
• remove
• remover
• rip someone off phrasal verb
• root something out/up phrasal verb
• root something/someone out phrasal verb
• wipe
• withdraw
• withdrawal

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Advantage and disadvantage (Definition of milk from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

milk | American Dictionary

milknoun [ U ] us /mɪlk/ Add to word list Add to word list the white liquid produced esp. by cows which people drink: cookies and milk Milk is also the white liquid produced by female mammals as food for their young: Breast milk is the best nourishment for a baby. The white liquid obtained from some plants is also called milk: coconut milk milkverb [ T ] us /mɪlk/ To milk something or someone is to get as much from that thing or person as possible: The newspapers milked the story dry. (Definition of milk from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

milk | Business English

milkverb [ T ]   disapproving uk /mɪlk/ us Add to word list Add to word list to get as much money or information from someone or something as possible or as much advantage from a situation as possible: milk sb for sth The supermarket has been accused of milking suppliers for as much money as they can. If the press hear about this, they will milk the story for weeks. (Definition of milk from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of milk?

Translations of milk

in Chinese (Traditional) 奶, 牛奶, 羊奶… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 奶, 牛奶, 羊奶… See more in Spanish leche, leche vegetal, bebida vegetal… See more in Portuguese leite, ordenhar, leite [masculine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian दूध, आईचे दूध… See more ミルク, （動物の）乳を絞る, 牛乳（ぎゅうにゅう）… See more süt, iliğini kurutmak, sömürmek… See more lait [masculine], lait [masculine] maternel, traire… See more llet, munyir… See more melk, melken… See more பசுக்கள், ஆடுகள் மற்றும் செம்மறி ஆடுகளால் உற்பத்தி செய்யப்படும் வெள்ளை திரவம் மற்றும் மனிதர்களால் பானமாக அல்லது வெண்ணெய், சீஸ் போன்றவற்றை தயாரிக்க பயன்படுத்தப்படுகிறது.… See more दूध… See more દૂધ, ધાવણ… See more mælk, malke… See more mjölk, mjölka… See more susu, memerah susu… See more die Milch, melken… See more melk [masculine], melke, melk… See more دودھ, ماں کا دودھ… See more молоко, доїти… See more పాలు… See more দুধ, গরু, ছাগল এবং ভেড়ার দুধ যা মানুষের পানীয় হিসাবে বা মাখন… See more mléko, dojit… See more susu, memerah susu… See more น้ำนม, รีดนม… See more sữa, vắt sữa… See more mleko, wykorzystywać, wyciągać od… See more 우유, 우유를 짜다… See more latte, mungere… See more Need a translator?

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• milkshake
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